Professional Sound Podcast

Mike Christiansen is the Director of Technical Production & Broadcast Services for the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club. Christiansen is a veteran in sports production, also having served as an associate director for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada, and as a freelance technical producer at MLSE for both NHL and NBA games.

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Michael Nunan is the senior manager of broadcast audio operations at Bellmedia in Toronto, ON. He is also a professor at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology, as well as an adjunct professor at OIART and The Banff Centre.

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Dave Dysart is the director of sales at Canadian pro audio distributor YSL Pro (Universal Audio, ADAM Audio, Rupert Neve Designs) and a member of Exeter punk band UIC.

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Mike Fraser began his career at Little Mountain Sound in Vancouver working with legendary producers Bruce Fairbairn and Bob Rock. Fraser’s credits include AC/DC several albums running, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Joe Satriani, and Hatebreed. As the years have gone by Fraser has ventured into other styles of music, all chart toppers, no matter what genre or style of music.

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As a teenager, Jason Dufour’s musical purchases were informed not by the name on the front cover or the track listing on the back; instead, he looked to the liner notes. “I would walk into HMV and I knew the guys there,” he begins to recall. “I’d say, ‘I think this one dude worked on this CD, can I open it? I just want to see!’ If I opened it and didn’t see the name, I’m like, ‘I don’t want to buy this!’”

Two decades later, Jason Dufour is the name in the liner notes, wherever you may be reading them.

A graduate of London’s Ontario Institute of Audio Recording Technology (OIART), Dufour has gone on to have a hand in multiple Juno Award-winning and nominated records across a slew of genres, and is one of the Canada’s most in-demand and well-rounded engineers today. His résumé is dotted with marquee names, including Lights, Three Days Grace, Tokyo Police Club, Donovan Woods, Protest the Hero, and The Tea Party, and is punctuated by a Juno victory of his own as 2017’s Recording Engineer of the Year for his mixing work on July Talk’s acclaimed LP Touch.

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Brock McGinnis, CTS is the vice president of sales and operations at Mississauga, ON's Nationwide Audio Visual. McGinnis is well known in the audiovisual industry for his 20-year tenure leading the highly regarded integration division of Westbury National. A frequent contributor to AV conferences, publications, podcasts and social media, he has served on the Board of the Music Industries Association of Canada as well as InfoComm and AVIXA committees and councils in the U.S. In 2017 McGinnis became the first Canadian inducted into the System Contractor’s Hall of Fame.

Nationwide Audio Visual has been family-owned and operated since 1962. Initially focused on selling educational technologies to schools and universities, Nationwide now offers a broad range of AV and communications systems and services to businesses, governments, institutions and the construction industry.

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Join host Andrew Leyenhorst and Doug McClement, audio engineer, founder and operator of Live Wire Remote Recorders; a remote recording company based in Toronto, but operating across North America. McClement has recorded many high profile events and artists including AC/DC, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, the MMVAs, the Grey Cup, and the Juno Awards.

McClement spent five weeks in Tokyo in July and August, working with the sports commentary department at the Olympics. It was McClement’s fourth games with Olympic Broadcast Services (OBS). He was working with a talented team of audio engineers from Germany, The Netherlands, Spain, Poland and Portugal supervising the mixes of the 77 commentators, covering every event.

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